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This week, we take a look at the biggest baseball scandal at the time, since the 1919 World Series fix. Seven of some of the biggest names in baseball, took the stand before a federal grand jury, to expose the incredible network of players using cocaine, as well as the local Pennsylvania baseball fans who would ultimately pay the price, for servicing the player's insatiable appetite for the drug. An enterprise so expansive, that even the Pirates' mascot, the Parrot, was conducting deals in the Pittsburgh clubhouse during games. #PeterUeberroth #JoaquinAndujar #DaleBerra #EnosCabbell #KeithHernandez #JeffLeonard #DaveParker #LonnieSmith #RodScurry #KevinKoch #CurtisStrong #DaleShiffman #JAAllen #AdamORenfro

This is probably, the craziest baseball stories you have never heard. It's so crazy, that Adam Sandler actually considered doing a movie about it. Former MLB catcher Rick Dempsey, once told a group of us in a bar, the story of how his little league California travel team coach, was robbing banks, to fund the team. All the way to the Pony League World Series in Washington, Pa. Thank the baseball gods, I have a platform to tell this incredible story. Backwards K Pod Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories The Mutt And Jeff Bandits.... This is their story #MuttAndJeffBandits #RickDempsey #RobinYount #LarryYount #JohnJennings #PaulRosenbluth #BruceDavis #RandyCohen #TerryHankins #AugieMurillo #LetsTalkBaseballPodcastNetwork #JakeRobinson #BackwardsKPod

There is no country on the planet that ties their national identity to baseball like the Dominican Republic. How does a country with a population of 10.4 million people, produce 11% of the players in Major League Baseball? This week will examine all things Pelota.

Baseball and the Dominican Republic. This their story.

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With 4 World Series Appearances, 6 NL West Crowns, and two world titles, the Cincinnati Reds dominated 70’s like no other MLB team during the decade. Fueled by the Great Eight lineup which featured the MLB all-time hit king, 3 Hall Of Famers, 6 NL MVP, 4 NL Home Run titles, 3NL batting titles, 25 Gold Gloves and 63 World Series appearances. The Big Red Machine would prove to be one of the most dominant teams ever.

This their story…

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While Jackie Robinson is rightfully embraced as the man who would smash the color line in 1947, it was Moses Fleetwood Walker who was actually the first black man to play Major League Baseball, a whole 63 years before Jackie would take center stage. In fact, it was due to Walkers participation during that 1884 season, that the powers that be, would establish the racist color line. This is the oft-forgotten story of Moses Fleetwood Walker.

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This week we examine, arguably the greatest power pitcher, in the history of Major League Baseball, Mr. Nolan Ryan. For 27 years, the Ryan Express astounded fans and changed the record books forever. #NolanRyan #NewYorkMets #CaliforniaAngels #HoustonAstros #TexasRangers #SandyKoufax #BackwardsKPod #LetsTalkBaseballPodcastNetwork #JakeRobinson

Eddie Feigner is the greatest fast pitch softball pitcher who ever lived. How else can you explain the 8,698 batters he struck out.... while being blindfolded?

The King And His Court traveled over 4 million miles, through 100 different countries, challenging any and all takers, to a friendly game of fast pitch softball. The King And his three teammates versus your best nine players.

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As the baseball universe holds their collective breath, with the current MLB work stoppage underway. We will examine the 1994 baseball strike that literally killed a major league team. At 74-40 with a 6 1/2 game lead over the mighty Braves, the Montreal Expos were standing on the precipice of greatness. That is, until that disastrous strike, that changed everything..... forever.

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Here at Backwards K Pod, we not only collect ballplayers and their stories. We also collect milestones, moments, mascots and even stadiums. This week we will begin our collection of stadiums, with the oldest, living, breathing, baseball monument on the planet, Fenway Park. A New England birthright, that has been passed down through the generations, going on 110 years now. #BostonRedSox #MajorLeagueBaseball #BabeRuth #DuffysCliff #FenwayPark #TedWilliams #CarltonFisk #BigGreenMonster #PeskyPole #Fens #TomYawkey #JakeRobinson #BackwardsKPod #LetsTalkBaseballPodcastNetwork #DavidOrtiz

In the wake of the devastation, created by the economic collapse of the Great Depression, comes a baseball team that captures the hearts and imagination of the average fan in 1934. A collection of talented but zany characters, known as the Gashouse Gang, that would bully their way to the World Series crown. #StLouisCardinals #GashouseGang #BranchRickey #DizzyDean #DaffyDean #PepperMartin #WildHorseOfTheOsage #RipperCollins #DuckyMedwick #FordhamFlash #FrankieFrisch #LeoDurocher #DetroitTigers #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #JakeRobinson #LetsTalkBaseballPodcastNetwork #BackwardsKPod